Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
15:50 Shaked-Tura CP
The work on the road leading to the checkpoint continues and expands. On the side of the road they are flattening a wide area; it is unclear for what purpose.
The muezzin’s voice sounds loud and clear. Two soldiers leave the checkpoint and approach a car that stops at the entrance. Then they approach us as well and ask who we are. Not waiting for an answer, they return to the checkpoint.
As usual at this checkpoint, there is little traffic. One of the people passing says that in the morning it was more or less ”OK ”. He claims that the closure in the next 11 days (Sukkot) will also apply to the entrance to the seam zone, not just entry into Israel.
16:20 Rihan-Barta’a Checkpoint, seam zone side
We go down to the entrance of the terminal along with the crowd of workers returning from work. They pass quickly through the turnstile and bypass the terminal itself. Most of them are young men who work building the new city of Harish. A few of them are older, and there are a few women. Some of them greet us and others are interested in the closure, Hannah phones Ron, one of the managers of the checkpoint, and he says that the closure applies to entering Israel but not the passage to the seam zone. Tomorrow, the eve of Sukkot, the checkpoint will open at seven in the morning like on Fridays.
One of our acquaintances, an elderly man, is passing through the agriculture checkpoint Anin. He meets us with great joy.
16:50 we leave. The routine of the occupation and the checkpoints is discouraging.
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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Tura-Shaked
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Tura-Shaked
This is a fabric of life* checkpoint through which pedestrians, cabs and private cars (since 2008) pass to and from the West Bank and the Seam-line Zone to and from the industrical zone near the settler-colony Shaked, schools and kindergartens, and Jenin university campuses. The checkpoint is located between Tura village inside the West Bank and the village of Dahar Al Malah inside the enclave of the Seam-line Zone. It is opened twice a day, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and from 12 noon to 7 p.m. People crossing it (at times even kindergarten children) are inspected in a bungalow with a magnometer. Names of those allowed to cross it appear in a list held by the soldiers. Usually traffic here is scant.
- fabric of life roads and checkpoints, as defined by the Terminals Authority in the Ministry of Defense (fabric of life is a laundered name that does not actually describe any kind of humanitarian purpose) are intended for Palestinians only. These roads and checkpoints have been built on lands appropriated from their Palestinian owners, including tunnels, bypass roads, and tracks passing under bridges. Thus traffic can flow between the West Bank and its separated parts that are not in any kind of territorial contiguity with it. Mostly there are no permanent checkpoint on these roads but rather ‘flying’ checkpoints, check-posts or surprise barriers. At Toura, a small (less than one dunam) and sleepy checkpoint has been established, which has filled up with the years with nearly .every means of supervision and surveillance that the Israeli military occupation has produced. (February 2020)
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